HillTopWV

Fact: Three percent of planned parenthood services are abortion services. Contraception is 32%. STD/HIV testing and treatment is 41%. Cancer screening and prevention is 12% (Planned Parenthood 2011 annual report). About 10% of women receiving services from PPFA receive abortion services, after considering that many customers receive several different types of services.

HillTopWV

Lie: “Abortions were the top money maker... 48.2 percent of its total income.”

Fact: Someone didn't bother doing the math. Using the figures provided in the letter showing total income at something over $1 billion plus 18.5 million, the percentage of income from abortions ($148.5 million) is less than 15% of total income. This is also consistent with PPFA's chart of income sources for 2011 which requires you find abortion services income somewhere in the 29% left over after removing the 71% of income which is clearly not from abortion.

HillTopWV

Lie: “Democratic party convention speakers 'shouted from the hilltops' that not providing free abortions to women was comparable to a 'War on Women!”

Fact: No Democratic speaker said any such thing. The government does not fund or provide free abortions. It is prohibited by law. Anti-abortion extremists want to defund PPFA completely and transfer the money elsewhere (to right-wing and papist Christian groups?) under the false pretext that government funds pay for abortions. It's all about the right-wingers aspiring to feed more at the government trough than they are already.

HillTopWV

Fact: See the American Cancer Society's web site concerning the flaws in studies done which make this claim, and the Danish study which is considered much more reliable. There is actually an increased risk of breast cancer for a short time after live birth, so the breast cancer argument won't help the anti-birth control position.

deadhead

Planned Parenthood is the lifeline to many poor women for basic women's healthcare. If you do not want an abortion; don't have one. To try and put abortion back into the shadows of dark alleys and wire hangers IS a war on women. Abortion should be safe, legal and rare. Planned parenthood actually prevents more abortions than it provides, by providing women with the education and access to contraception and how to use it properly. Again; if you don't want an abortion - don't have one. But your views are yours. Get your mind and morals out of others vaginas.

HillTopWV

If God is to be credited with the "miracle" of child birth, then he/she/it should also get credit for being the biggest abortionist ever, with up to 75% of ALL pregnancies ending in miscarriage (estimate including fertilized eggs which do not implant--otherwise 30%). God even does it for free.

Let the Edgars start writing letters against divine abortion for awhile and see how that goes. They seem to think they have a direct line to the big guy.

realitycheck

"Let the Edgars start writing letters against divine abortion for awhile and see how that goes."

Hilltop, Maybe you just don't get it. Let me be the first to inform you that the Edgars have the right to write any letter they want. If you want to write a letter in support of "devine abortion" or other nonsense, be our guest. Such intolerance !!!!

HillTopWV

Yes, I really should be more tolerant of ignorance, stupidity and lies from the likes of the Edgars.

We've had years of Edgar letters dripping with self-righteous invective toward people who honestly and rightly disagree with their extremist views on abortion, and you think I'm the intolerant one. I simply call them out on their lies. They call anyone who disagrees with them “baby killers.”